Sunday, December 6, 2009

Bess Beetle: Horned Passalus (Odontotaenius disjunctus)

This Horned Passalus was making its way very slowly and gracefully over a fallen tree branch by the path just opposite the pool. The temperature was about 45 F which probably explains why it was moving so slowly. It had lost one antenna. When I picked it up to photograph the remaining antenna, it doggedly continued its steady pace across my hand. When I placed it back on the log, it simply moved on to the leaf litter as if nothing had happened.

2 comments:

I am not a microbiologist..don't think I could have made it through all the science after I led a high school protest against dissecting frogs..I'm a retired special education teacher but very interested in what goes on in my yard and to my delight, there is always something... My low tech COS